Category: Ephemera

  • Pac-Man Skeleton

    Artist Le Gentil Garçon collaborated with a paleontologist to blend human and predatory animal skulls into this Pac-Man “skull.” (It’d actually be its entire skeleton, I believe.) Maybe he’ll do Frogger next. Link (via BoingBoing)

  • Steam Trek: The Moving Picture

    Any comment I could make would be entirely superfluous. (via Slumbering Lungfish)

  • Why I Love My Husband

    (#2,387,492 in a series) After this story broke, Shadow and I got into a heated, hand-waving, take-no-prisoners argument about the likelihood of marginal life still existing on Mars. There was much quoting of statistical data regarding hard radiation on cell structure and much citing of extremophilic organisms on Earth, not to mention a protracted wrangle…

  • Heard on the Radio This Morning

    Actor Leonard Nimoy has reinvented himself as a photographer of “plus-size” nude women. Do you have any idea what a sentence like that does to a brain that hasn’t had any coffee yet? I checked and this is, indeed, entirely true. The link is NSFW. Or possibly anywhere else either. Link

  • Aaaaaargh—lolbots

    I don’t believe I can put it any more succinctly than Xeni Jardin has: Goddammit. Every time I swear I’m gonna put a kibosh on any plural noun that begins with LOL, someone reboots the meme in a genuinely funny way. Well said. Anyway, R. Stevens of Dieselsweeties has come up with the latest riff.…

  • LOLCODE

    I’m beginning to have this fear that someday alien archaeologists will conclude that life on Earth died out due to an internet meme spiraling Clear the Hell out of control. Hard on the heels of loltrek and lolgoth, the LOLCODE project is dedicated to creating a real programming language based on the syntax used for…

  • You May Have Been a Good Smuggler…

    …but now you’re dark chocolate.Instructables user FreakCitySF has posted instructions on how to make a candy mold to turn out your very own chocolate Han Solo in Carbonite. Weird. Eerie. Link (via Neatorama)

  • The Cotton Monster

    Fiber artist Jennifer Strunge makes unique monsters out of recycled clothing and linens. According the the FAQ, although they may pretend to eat your arm, they prefer broccoli. Link (via Everlasting Blort)

  • A “Charitable Menagerie”

    Cartoonist Joe Alterio is raising money for the San Francisco AIDS Foundation in an unusual way. Make a donation and he will draw a robot or a monster (your choice) defined by three words or phrases you provide (“pink, cute, holding flowers,” “arrogant, obtuse, left-handed,” whatever). Link (via Neatorama)

  • Which Serenity Character Are You?

    I worked out to be Dr. Simon Tam. Much better than being a Reaver, I suppose.Link